Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berens said that the club's members roster for 1950-51, 50 men, was welcome jump above last year's roll call of 30. He attributed the sudden success that the U.N. Council seemed to be enjoying to the boost in prestige that the U.N. has received during the course of the Korean campaign...
...Wednesday the avalanche began to roll. Late the night before a motorized column of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, barreling up from the south, had joined hands with the X Corps pushing down from the Inchon beachhead. "Complete breakthrough," reported Tokyo. On Thursday the enemy's main force abandoned Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th...
From across the rivers would roll contraptions for clearing roads-bulldozers, road scrapers, clamshell scoops, cranes resembling prehistoric monsters-to try to cope somehow with history's biggest pile of rubble. Medical squads would treat the maimed and the burned, administer blood, try to save the thousands of victims of shock, who would die within a few hours if they were untended...
...will roll because it's round . . . As a silver dollar goes from hand...
...Alvin Johnson, the best place for such men & women is the expanding field of adult education. There, he believes, they can use their talents freely ("no roll calls, no fool examinations, no bibliographies that no one ever reads, no jargon that no one ever understands") and still not stand in the way of promotion for younger teachers...